1st beta of Vol. VII-IX

Bot Fighting 101: Don’t Feed the Hacker

November 28, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Some of the system calls are not absolutely necessary, and using them will significantly simplify life of the attacker

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Scrambling will help to protect your protocol even if the attacker manages to F.L.I.R.T. with your TLS library

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MOGs: Hacks and Hackers

November 21, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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One of the nastier-for-us features of IDA Pro is so-called F.L.I.R.T.

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All the popular protection methods lag well-behind capabilities of the average-attacker-on-a-100K-simultaneous-player-game.

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Merits of Anti-Reverse-Engineering for MOGs

November 14, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Given enough time, everything can be broken

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in this fight, most of the non-cheating player population will be on our side

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OLTP Database Optimization 102 – DIY Heterogeneous Replication (Part II)

October 31, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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The point of Super-Replica is that it is a replica Slave DB which is larger than original Master DB

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this “don’t write some HISTORICAL data to Master DB” approach can easily allow to reduce the load on the Master OLTP DB by a factor of 2x-3x

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